The gray render appeared in the third edition Monster Manual (2000),[1] and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual (2003).[2] The gray render appeared in the fourth edition Monster Manual 2 (2009).[3]

A gray render is a big, bulky, bulbous creature which stands 9 feet tall, despite a hunched posture, and 4 feet wide and long. It has a short tail, and a bullet-shaped head with six small, yellow eyes.

Template to be added to any corporeal humanoid or monstrous humanoid. A sample Feral Minotaur is described.

Gelatinous Creature

116-118

Template to be added to any living creature except an ooze. A sample Gelatinous Brown Bear is described.

Ghost Brute

118-120

Template to be added to any animal, magical beast, or plant with a Charisma score below 8. A sample Ghost Hound is described.

Incarnate Construct

120-121

Template to be added to any construct creature with a humanoid form. A sample Incarnate Stone Golem is described.

Insectile Creature

121-122

Template to be added to any giant, humanoid, or monstrous humanoid. A sample Insectile Ogre is described.

Monstrous Beast

122-124

Template to be added to any animal or vermin. A sample Monstrous Stag Beetle is described.

Multiheaded Creature

124-126

Template to be added to any corporeal creature that has a discernible head. A sample Multiheaded Hell Hound is described.

Mummified Creature

126-128

Template to be added to any corporeal animal, giant, or humanoid. A sample Mummified Ogre is described.

Reptilian Creature

128-129

Template to be added to any humanoid, monstrous humanoid, or giant. A sample Reptilian Bugbear is described.

Spectral Creature

129-

Template to be added to any aberration, animal, dragon, giant, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid. A sample Spectral Cloaker is described.

Symbiotic Creature

131-132

Template to be added to any two living creatures of the following types: animal, humanoid, plant, or vermin. One of the two must be two size categories smaller than the other. A sample Symbiosis of a Bugbear and a Stirge is described.

Tauric Creature

132-133

Template combining one small or medium corporeal humanoid or monstrous humanoid and one medium or large corporeal animal, magical beast, or vermin with four or more legs. A sample Tauric of a Griffon and Hobgoblin is described.

Umbral Creature

134-135

Template to be added to any aberration, animal, dragon, giant, humanoid, magical beast, or monstrous humanoid. A sample Umbral Ettin is described.

Wight

136-137

Template to be added to any humanoid. A sample Troglodyte Wight is described.

Winged Creature

137-138

Template to be added to any animal, giant, humanoid, monstrous humanoid, or vermin. A sample Winged Dog is described.

Wraith

138-140

Template to be added to any humanoid. A sample Kobold Wraith is described.

Yuan-Ti

140-142

The "Tainted One" and "Broodguard" templates may be added to any human. A sample Yuan-Ti Tainted One is described.

Anthropomorphic Animal

214-215

Template to be added to any non-dire animal. A sample Anthropomorphic Donkey is described.